[original at
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2007Jul/0908.html
- Al]
On Jul 18, 2007, at 23:45, Al Gilman wrote:
>The working group likes the idea of having built in semantics in HTML
>and in particular would prefer to have common document elements, such
>as widgets built in to the markup. This reduces download size and the
>effort required to make a web page accessible. For these reasons, we
>would promote the use of such markup over the ARIA approach. That
>said, we do believe that HTML 5 will not incorporate document
>elements for all those included in the ARIA role taxonomy nor will it
>include all the states and properties.
I've created a table of built-in role coverage:
http://hsivonen.iki.fi/html5-roles/
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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@iki.fihttp://hsivonen.iki.fi/